See how many complaints Yorkshire Building Society received and dealt over a six month period and how these relate to the number of accounts in each grouping, to allow comparisons to be made with other financial organisations on a consistent basis.

01/07/15 to 31/12/15

Firm Name

Yorkshire Building Society
Other firms included in this report

Barnsley Building Society
Chelsea Building Society
Norwich & Peterborough Building Society
Norwich & Peterborough Investment Brokers
Period covered
01/07/15 to 31/12/15
Below is a table showing how many complaints Yorkshire Building Society received and dealt with from 01/07/15 to 31/12/15
 
The comparative figures show how these relate to the number of accounts or income in each grouping, to allow comparisons to be made with other financial organisations on a consistent basis.
 

To put the figures into context:

  • We have nearly 3.5 million Banking and loan accounts. We received 1.14 complaints for every 1000 accounts.
  • We have over 172,000 mortgage accounts. We received 15.3 complaints for every 1000 accounts.
  • We received 114 general insurance and pure protection complaints for every &1 million of gross annual premiums.
  • We received 3.20 life and pension complaints for every 1000 policy holders.
  • We received 99 investment complaints for every &1 million of gross annual premiums.
Complaints are very important to us. We use complaints to understand where our customers aren't happy with our service so we can make improvements. We always do our best to deal with complaints as quickly and fairly as possible. Our complaints process has been designed with customers at its heart. If you have a complaint, please get in touch and we'll do all we can to resolve the matter with you.
 


Complaints Data

Complaints received and dealt with by Yorkshire Building Society from 01/07/15 to 31/12/15
Product/Service Grouping Number of complaints opened Number of complaints closed Complaints closed within 8 weeks Closed complaints upheld by YBS
Banking and credit cards 3958 4421 97.2% 41.5%
Home Finance 2637 3088 95.0% 57.5%
General Insurance & Pure protection 3623 3938 95.2% 11.0%
Life, Pensions and Decumulation 87 105 75.2% 15.2%
Investments 108 145 90.3% 16.6%